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Huns Within Our Gates (1918)

Huns Within Our Gates poster
Genre
silent film
Country
United States
Rated
NR
Rating
8.0 of 10 from 1 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

This is a silent era World War I propaganda film from the United States. It follows characters as they confront threats from foreign enemies. The story was also used in an earlier movie called The Crusher.

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What happens

Huns Within Our Gates is a 1918 American silent World War I propaganda film, starring Derwent Hall Caine and Valda Valkyrien. Released by the Arrow Film Corporation, the cast, characters and plot were used in The Crusher (1917). While credits for who produced the film are lacking, the film was edited and titled by Madame Marie Genores and Jesse J. Goldburg at the Thanhouser Studio in New Rochelle, NY. After being re-edited the film was re-released as Commercial Pirates in March 1919. Also known as The Hearts of Men. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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